Improvement in railroad tickets



T. A. JEBB. Railroad-Tickets.

Patented Sep. 10

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HWPROVEMENT IN RAILROAD TICKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,276, datedSeptember 10, 1872.

SPECIFICATION. I, THOMAS AJEBB, of the city of Buffalo,

in the county of Erie and State of New York,

have invented certain Improvements in Itailroad Tickets, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My invention relates to Letters Patent No. 99,125, granted January 25,1870, to John P. Whitehead, of which I am the sole owner; and also toLetters Patent No. 128,629, granted to me July 2, 1872, both for duplexor duplicate check-tickets. My present invention consists, first, of abook of folded duplicate tickets, bound together at the upper endthereof, so that the leaves of each. duplicate ticket will be secured atone end by the binding and at the adjacent side by the fold, whereby thetickets are held compactly together, and the unfolding and punching ofeither portion of the ticket is prevented Without first partiallydetaching one of the duplicate parts from the book 5 second, a duplicatecheck, designed for palace or sleeping cars, containing a list of thestations on the road, and a list of the various sums charged for seats,rooms, sections, or berths, so that the conductor, by punching theticket at the stations where the passenger gets on or off, and punchingthe column of charges opposite the sum paid bythepassenger, the latteris thus furnished with a receipt showing the amount paid by him, withwhich the conductors duplicate ticket must correspond;- third, of aIare-tickemcontaining the names of the stations, arranged in a column,so that the names of the stations canV be punched at either the initialor final letter, the first station'having printed over the initialletter` and over the final letter words or letters showing the twodirection'sthe train travels over the road, so that the position of theperforations at the initial or tinal letters ofthe -names of thestations will indicate the direction p the train was traveling when theticket was Like letters of reference designate like parts in each of thefigures.

The tickets shown in the drawing are represented as printed and adaptedfor use` on a palace-car on the Hudson River and New York CentralRailroad. u In Fig. I,A is the passen gers, and B the conductors portionof the duplicate ticket, each' of which has the names ofthe stations,the date in months and days, the list of prices charged, name of theroad, number of the ticket, and the number of the book printed induplicate, and arranged in a corresponding manner, so that the matter ineach that is required to be punched will be opposite each other when thetickets are folded. c is the punctured division-line, where the ticketis folded. D is the stub of each ticket, which has printed on it thename of the road, the number of the book, and number of the ticket. Overthe initial letters of the first station, (New York in'the drawing,) atthe top of the ticket, is printed the word West 5 and over the finalletters the word East 5 which words, according as the stations arepunched at the initial or final letters, indicate the direction thetrain is going, and are, of course, .varied on different roads, suchwords being used as indicate the out and return trains over the same..The stub of only one portion of each duplicate need be printed. e isthe punctured line of division between the passenger portion A of theticket and the stub, by which the separation of the ticket isfacilitated. The conductors portion B of the ticket is left unpunctured,so as to permit the passenger portion to be detached while theconductors portion remains attached to its stub. Fis the back of thecover of the book, and F the front portion, covering only the stubs ofthe tickets; and g, a band of India rubber attached to the cover F, andpassing around the cover F', as shown in Fig. III. lhesums under theheading Amount paid 7 are shown arranged in duplicate columns, withoutreference to any particular station. The first sum is twenty-five cents,($0.25,) which is the smallest sum charged for a seat. The second sum is$0.50, and so on up to $12.00, the assumed price of a large state-roomfrom New York to Buffalo or Niagara Falls. When the amounts are arrangedin duplicate columns the amount paid can be 2 temere punched from onecolumn, while the corresponding sum in the other column, remaining.

unpunched, will indicate the sum paid. A small blank space before eachsum may be left, and punched out instead of the iirst duplicate columnshown in the drawing.

When using the ticket on a westward-bound train the word West 7 over theinitial letter of the iirst station indicates that the initial lettersoi the names of the two stations between which the passenger has paidthe fare are to be punched out. In the drawing, Fig. I, the stations NewYork and lAlbany being thus punched, indicates that the passenger paidhis fare from New York to Albany;

Vand the perforation before the sum $51.00 of the second column ofamounts indicates that he paid that amount of fare. rlhe month and daybeing also punched out, as shown, before the ticket is detached from thebook, the passenger portion A is then separated at the punctured lines ce, and given to the passenger, thereby furnishinghim with a receiptshowing the distance and amount of money paid. Thisl ticket thetrain-conductor takes from the pass ger, while the palace ordrawing-room car conductor retains the duplicate part with the book.

The perforations in dotted lines at the end 0f the words Buffalo 7 andUtica would indica-te that 'the ticket was used on an eastern-boundtrain, the fare for a seat being $1.25, the sum punched out of the firstcolumn of amounts paid. The palace-car conductor being charged with abook of tickets of a certain number, and containing a specied number oftickets, he is required to return the book and his duplicate portions ofthe tickets either attached to or separated from the stubs. The tickets,if separated from the book, are rst examined to see if they correspondwith the number of the book, when he is credited with the number oftickets returned unpunched, and charged with the amount which thepunched duplicates show he has received. The duplicate passenger-ticketsbeing returned by the train-conductor, a comparison of the duplicateparts will show whether the tickets were properly punched beforeseparating or unfolding them.

The advantages of my improvements are as follows: The arrangement withthe names ot' the stations of words to designate the out77 and returntrains enables a single book and single formA of tickets to be used forboth directions without requiring the use of a pencil. The mode ofbinding the duplicate tickets in a book insures compactness, andprevents an improper unfolding and punching of the duplicate partsseparately. The use of stubs printed with the number of the book andticket to correspond with the duplicate parts of the tickets enablestheaccount with the conductor to be readily kept 5 while the stubs willshow the number of tickets furnished to any conductor in case any of thetickets should be lost or he should claim that the books were notcomplete. The perforating of the line between the passenger portion ofthe ticket and its stub, while the conductors portion is unperforated,enables the latter to be retained in position in the book, and preventsthe accidental loss thereof, besides being a convenient method ofpreserving the same. The short cover of the front side of the book, inconnection with the band for holding it closed, is a matter of greatconvenience, and facilitates the use of the book and separation of thetickets therefrom. The arrangement of a column of prices is essential onpalace or sleeping cars, as the' amount paid between any two stationsgreatly varies, according to the kind of seat or room occupied, and ifthe conductor was allowed to mark the sum paid by a pencil he couldreadily mark the duplicate parts differently.

By the use of my improved ticket no peucil is required, and the amountpaid must be correctly shown on both of the duplicate parts.

When used as a general-fare ticket, thelist of prices or fares may beomitted, as the amount of fare in such cases between any two stations isfixed and uniform.

What I claim as my invention isl. A book of folded duplicatecheck-tickets iu which the duplicate leaves of each ticket are securedtogether at the upper ends of the binding, while one of the adjacentsides is secured by the fold ot' the ticket, as hereinbefore shown anddescribed.

2. A duplicate check-ticket for palace or sleeping cars, containing thenames ofthe stations on the road, Witha duplicate .list of the varioussums charged for seats, rooms, or berths thereon, so as to enable theconductor, by punching the stations and opposite the sum in thelistwhich represents the amount paid by the passenger--to furnish thelatter with a receipt for the sum paid, which, corresponding with theconductors duplicate portion, prevents peculation by the latter, ashereinbefore set forth.

3. A railroad ticket with the names of the stations printed in a column,with words or letters representing the two directions the train travelsarranged over the initial letters and final letters of the iirststation, s'o that the punching of the names of the stations under theinitial or final letters will indicate the direction of the train, andthereby enable a single form of ticket to be used when running in eitherdirection, as .hereinbefore set forth.

T. A. JEBB.

Yi'itn esses:

Jol-1N J. BONNER, EDWARD NVILHELM.

